Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:31:48 +1000, "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 be given> wrote:

><Charlie> wrote in message
>> Sorry, I was also reading this article and became cornfused about what
>> I was reading and where I was reading it!  Not an uncommon occurrence.
>>
>>
http://hartlandag.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-study-industrial-agriculture-crops.html
>
>Interesting, but not surprising.  I am trying to remember how some of the

>measurements for organic vs inorganic food is done.   I seem to remember 
>brix and baume but that is all that comes to mind.
>
>And one has to wonder why kids these day seem to have so many diseases
that 
>were rare when I was a child.  People of my age were relatively lucky 
>because we were raised in an era when the production of food was organic,
or 
>only beginning on the inorganic track.  Kids when I was young were 
>considered to be rather defective if they had things like Asthma,
psoriasis, 
>allergies etc, because they were incredibly rare.  Now they seem to be 
>almost the norm rather than the exception.  Something has sure changed
since 
>I was a kid. 
>

As the referenced articles point out, this is a labor intensive way of
producing food.  I come from a part of America where that type of practice
was
still common in my chidhood.  Know, however, 95%+ of the population is not
dedicated to sunsistence farming, but rather lives in urban environments. 
One
real big change is this chamge in demographics, which makes locally
produced
food (some organically grown) much scarcer in most places here.